Video: MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan v. Ed Schultz … Schultz huffs off

posted at 2:05 pm on October 6, 2011 by Tina Korbe

Somebody is a little sensitive. Ed Schultz is such a fan of President Obama’s jobs plan that even when someone concedes it creates jobs but objects that it doesn’t create enough, Schultz just can’t stand it. Well, that — and being interrupted. Schultz today joined a post-presidential-press-conference panel on MSNBC that included financial journalist Dylan Ratigan. Schultz cheered what he thought was the president’s best presser ever, but turned touchy when Ratigan pointed out that the president’s plan at best will produce 1.2 million jobs — less than 3 percent of the problem. Ratigan earlier referred to the president as “well-intentioned, impassioned and committed,” but it just wasn’t enough for Mr. Schultz, who repeatedly insisted the president’s plan is “a start.” “Where’s the Republicans’ start?” he asked. As Schultz ranted, Ratigan attempted several times to interrupt … until, at last, Schultz said he had a radio show to host and couldn’t afford to be interrupted by Ratigan any longer.

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no kiddiing Steebo. You’d think in a nation of 325 million with 4.4 people per household and two of them being adults that full employment would be closer to 140 million working. Back in the fifty’s 40 million would be low by close to half I would think.

Special Ed was at the Wall Street protests last night telling the protesters they were all on Team Obama and getting heckled and booed for that little assumption. “Go home Ed! Go home Ed! Go home Ed!” one guy from and center in the crowd screamed through one segment.

Why can’t liberals do math??? Ratigan blurts out totally facetious numbers and nobody even challenges him. 1.2 mil is 3% of the solution? It sounds like a great propaganda ad for the Republicans except for the fact that even Republicans wouldn’t believe it.

REPUBLICANS DON’T HAVE A PLAN BECAUSE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T ‘CREATE JOBS’…BUSINESS OWNERS DO…

Ltlgeneral64 on October 6, 2011 at 2:27 PM

Sometimes the government needs to scale back, get out of the way, and sit on their hands for a while: in other words, do nothing and let the market/people work things out. This has been proven over and over again throughout history, here and everywhere else.

This reality is anathema to the Leftist vision of government. In their view, the government always must be doing something or else “America is failing.”

Remember: The Left views the concept of America as government in America. The Right and Center believe that the concept of America is comprised of the citizens of America.

5 people. All democrats talking to each other while the “lean forward” displays in the upper right corner of the screen. Not a contrary opinion to be heard. Just 5 buffoons arguing over who loves President Charlie Foxtrot the most.

Dylan says we’re short 30 million jobs. I guess he’s including the partially and underemployed.

He has some good ideas, but basically is all over the place and verges on the incoherent most of the time.

He basically wants what many of us want which is less corporatism/crony capitalism. But he, like the rest on that side of the aisle, don’t get that the reason there are so many lobbyists and special interest groups (who have a Constitutional right to petition the government)is that the government is meddling in too much of the economy and our lives.

Shrink the government’s influence, and you’d shrink the number of lobbyists as well.

Classic argument between progressive and radical. Ed will wait for a long time as long as his guy is driving them and progress to the solution. Dylan wants results now and it does not matter who gets them even in the most radical ways.

Sometimes the government needs to scale back, get out of the way, and sit on their hands for a while: in other words, do nothing and let the market/people work things out. This has been proven over and over again throughout history, here and everywhere else.

I think Schultzie and Dylan could solve our energy crisis for us. Just set them up in front of some wind turbines and let them go at it. Make a reality show out of it; call it, say, “Blow Hard America” or something. If this pilot program works, just set up the rest of the BSNBC show hosts in rotating shifts. Crisis solved! Hey, they’re already virtually a perpetual motion machine.